Nice people thread part 7 - a thread in its prime

SingleSue

Nikkster wrote: »

I'm here. Wonder where everyone else is? Are they having a party that we weren't invited to? :rotfl:

I have worn make up Mon to Fri since starting work. I'm not sure when the last time I did that was, but it was a long time ago (possibly when I was 18). I'm not hating it as much as I thought I would, not sure how long I will manage to keep up the illusion of trying to be vaguely presentable

Hope your calf calms itself down soon.

Catching up on Masterchef and feeling sorry for myself as I seem to be coming down with something, my temp is up, everything aches and I am so bloody knackered.

SingleSue

lostinrates wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl:

http://www.google.co.uk/products/catalog?q=nars+multiple+orgasm&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=9212715668743958891&sa=X&ei=nf-jUI-jNKL80QXu1YHwAQ&ved=0CEAQ8wIwAQ

Pah and there was me hoping it was some super duper new style vibrator....:rotfl:

silvercar

misskool wrote: »

If you are currently supplied, you won't even feel the change. Ring up your old supplier, get a MAC code, give MAC code to new chosen supplier and it's the same as a phone switch. New router arrives, wait for changeover date, change router. Everything is done automatically. If you switch mobile phone suppliers then it's almost the same. We are now with Sky as they had the best deal £100 cashback, £13 line rental, £10 broadband. The line rental increase doesn't change their good deal but it does mean I will switch when the minimum term of this is over for cashback.

I don't think it works like that if your supplier is currently virgin.

and they shut down your email addresses within 90 days.

I have a onetel address that I used when we had dial-up, in about 1994 that is still live. I think talk talk own it now. In theory I could still dial in and use their service so the email address remains live.

Just checked on the virgin website, you don't need a MAC code to leave.

LydiaJ

Doozergirl wrote: »

Kiddo assures me he is quite okay, aside from sounding almost exactly like Darth Vader. I worry when he's not with me and then I worry when he is, because of the racket he's making.

When LNE was a little boy he had to go into hospital to have his adenoids dealt with. His mum stayed overnight in hospital with him. The first night (before the op) she got no sleep because he was snoring so loudly. The second night (afterwards) she got no sleep because she kept worrying that he'd stopped breathing. Worrying about our kids is just what mums do.

Doozergirl wrote: »

I don't bother with make up at work really, they notice when I do. Sometimes I do the school run before brushing my teeth. I can scrub up okay, I think but I find it hard to make the effort. I'm growing caterpillars over my eyes and have three immaculately gelled fingernails. The rest are a bit flaky and chewed.

I decided last week I was going to make an effort. I decided to start wearing red lipstick like I did when I was younger. I bought perfume, new boots with a heel, not stuffed full of sheepskin and had my hair done. It did last until Monday this week.
Now my hair looks gross as I haven't washed it since Sunday night and there are still trace elements of Mondays mascara under my eyes.

I will wash before work tomorrow!

I have gradually converted to wearing make-up every day for work (although not always on non work days). I seldom make time to put it on before I leave the house, though. However, my journey to work has lots of traffic lights, and I always have plenty of time to put it on in instalments each time I'm waiting at a red light.

SingleSue wrote: »

Catching up on Masterchef and feeling sorry for myself as I seem to be coming down with something, my temp is up, everything aches and I am so bloody knackered.

Sounds nasty. Hope it's over soon, but in the meantime, do look after yourself.

Spirit_2

I am here now. I popped on yesterday evening to read but was not in the right frame of mind to post.

CK - if that is your diagnosis I am very sorry to hear it and hope all goes well for you.

Doozer - what a worry, hope your poorly boy is on the mend soon. No matter how old they are it is awful when your child is ill.

LiR - you are showing great fortitude again. I think I am going to buy your make up stick thing as my contribution to a secret santa.

Me.I have been tetsing various parts of the NHS.

Saturday - awaoke an needed an urgent GP appointment, GP surgery is open on staurdays but does not do urgent appointments at weekends, I was directed to ring the out of hours service. My heart sank. I rang them, they promised to ring back 'within 6 hours'. Within 2 hours they had rung back and I had seen an OOH GP at a nearby city hospital.

Monday - On MSE a bit as I am in bed all day, urgent evening GP appointment with a duty GP as antibugs given on Saturday are not working.

Tuesday- Mr S goes to the Baltic until Sunday. I am in great pain urgent evening appointment with a different duty GP who gives me choice of two hospitals, rings them and sends me straight in for assessment.

8.30pm I am in a bed awaiting a Dr. Hospitals at night have few Medical Staff on and I am reallistically expecting a long wait to see someone very inexperienced:( 10pm a junior Dr who meets my low expectations clerks me in, 11pm an absolutely brilliant Registrar appears quickly makes decisions on what needs to be done to relieve pain & symptoms and agrees IV antibiotics for underlying problem. A baby Dr (new August) has to put a cannulae in - attempt one hurt and failed, I have collapsing veins, attempt two hurt and took a while but worked - I am OK with this as they have 'to learn' and better on me than frail elderly.

Wednesday 4pm I am home again.

The NHS worked very well for me and I am once agin grateful and amazed that we manage all of this as free at the point of delivery.

Sorry. That was all me me me me.

vivatifosi

Nikkster wrote: »

I've given blood a lot of times (as a for colleagues experiments), and I generally found it flowed better if I was better hydrated (might just have been coincidence though). You can drink water whilst fasting too

Thanks Nikkster, that's really helpful. I don't drink water when I'm fasting because I don't like the feeling of the water going down that you get when there's no food in there. However if it means that I'm not spending all my (and the NHS's) time trying to get blood out that can only be a good thing. This is the first time this has happened, they can normally get into my arm easily enough, so that would make sense as a correlation.

vivatifosi

Spirit, glad you are ok and at home. Hope that you are not in pain now.

misskool

lostinrates wrote: »

It's already softening :j

It's not just the diagnosis it's the whole bloody system. They told me in summer I would be in eyeclinic at least twelve weekly from now on. Have I heard back? Pfffft. Apparently my next appt was to be late September or October. Well, no one has written to me yet. When I agreed in a and e to go back on the lumbar puncture list I have obviously suitably !!!!ed off neurology there, because I have never heard from them either.

The go did call to get me to make an appt for the sleep study thing, and go in for bloods, but i feel better now, so I would expect my bloods to be better, so no point really, and also because I don't feel like I did it's hard to find the impetus to persue stuff, especially when results won't show what ever was going on in summer.

I could whinge about the NHS but it would just make me insane. The upshot is that for one thing, I will have to pay private as the NHS has cut it out of our PCT as it's non-essential so it's heavily rationed and I fail the qualification criteria. But I can't go for that first thing until they have figured out the second thing which all the blood tests have shown to be negative. It is a diagnosis by exclusion (which I'm sure it's wrong) because I think it's part of the first thing.

Anyways, the long and the short is that the NHS can't fix me because it's decided not to look at the main thing that's wrong with me.

vivatifosi wrote: »

I had to give bloods this week for tests. They tried one arm - couldn't get a vein. Tried the other arm, couldn't get blood out of the vein. After 20 minutes they took it out of my wrist. I've now had a call saying that they didn't manage to get a good enough sample and I need it done all over. Pah... Blood out of a stone me. And I had to fast beforehand. Bah humbug.

Spirit wrote: »

I am here now. I popped on yesterday evening to read but was not in the right frame of mind to post.

Tuesday- Mr S goes to the Baltic until Sunday. I am in great pain urgent evening appointment with a different duty GP who gives me choice of two hospitals, rings them and sends me straight in for assessment.

8.30pm I am in a bed awaiting a Dr. Hospitals at night have few Medical Staff on and I am reallistically expecting a long wait to see someone very inexperienced:( 10pm a junior Dr who meets my low expectations clerks me in, 11pm an absolutely brilliant Registrar appears quickly makes decisions on what needs to be done to relieve pain & symptoms and agrees IV antibiotics for underlying problem. A baby Dr (new August) has to put a cannulae in - attempt one hurt and failed, I have collapsing veins, attempt two hurt and took a while but worked - I am OK with this as they have 'to learn' and better on me than frail elderly.

The NHS worked very well for me and I am once agin grateful and amazed that we manage all of this as free at the point of delivery.

Sorry. That was all me me me me.

Hope you're feeling better again

While on the subject of bloodletting, I have really tricky veins, they can often get 20-30ml from my left vein but so slowly that you might as well have a nap. I often tell the nurses to take from my right hand vein but many of them can't see it as it's really deep so they often wimp out and take it from the slow easy to see one. I have to always check how much they want and instruct them on my veins. I have many years experience of being bled for science. :rotfl:

It always helps if I clench and unclench my fists while giving blood as well, maybe that will help?

Doozergirl

I hope you are feeling better Spirit. It wasn't all me, me, me at all but I hope that we can all have a 'me' moment on here. Sometimes we just don't have the room for anything else

Seem we're collectively keeping the NHS very busy this week. Perhaps we could give them a break next week? Would be good for all of us

LydiaJ

Spirit wrote: »

LiR - you are showing great fortitude again.

What Spirit said.

Spirit wrote: »

Me.I have been tetsing various parts of the NHS.....

The NHS worked very well for me and I am once agin grateful and amazed that we manage all of this as free at the point of delivery.

Sorry. That was all me me me me.

V glad it worked for you and that you are feeling better, but sorry to hear you've been so poorly. Hope things continue on the mend now.

And your post was not "all me me me me". You responded to what other people have said, and then you included your news in the kind of level of detail that us NP like to be told. So cut yourself some slack.

X-posted with Doozer